Paul Krugman was born on February 28, 1953. He received a B.S. in economics from Yale University in 1974 and a Ph.D from MIT in 1977. From 1982 to 1983, he worked at the Reagan White House as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He taught at numerous universities including Yale University, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Stanford University before becoming a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University in 2000. He has written over 200 scholarly papers and 20 books including Peddling Prosperity; International Economics: Theory and Policy; The Great Unraveling; and The Conscience of a Liberal. Since 2000, he has written a twice-weekly… column for The New York Times. He received the 1991 John Bates Clark Medal and the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His title End This Depression Now! made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012.

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Paperback Edition

Preface

Introduction: A Revolutionary Power

Bubble Trouble

Irrational Exuberance

Seven Habits of Highly Defective Investors

The Ice Age Cometh

The Ponzi Paradigm

Dow Wow, Dow Ow

Money for Nothing?

Create and Destroy

The Pizza Principle

Damaged by the Dow

Portents Abroad

Asia: What Went Wrong?

Why Germany Kant Kompete

We're Not Japan

A Leap in the Dark

Greenspanomics

Don't Ask Alan

Eleven and Counting

Herd on the Street

Living with Bears

Dubya's Double Dip?

Mind the Gap

Passing the Buck

Stocks and Bombs

The Vision Thing

Dealing with W

My Economic Plan

Crony Capitalism, U.S.A.

Crony Capitalism, U.S.A.

Two, Three, Many?

Enemies of Reform

Greed Is Bad

Flavors of Fraud

Everyone Is Outraged

Succeeding in Business

The Insider Game

The Outrage Constraint

Business as Usual

Fuzzy Math

The Bait ...

Oops! He Did It Again

We're Not Responsible

Fuzzier and Fuzzier

Et Tu, Alan?

Slicing the Salami

The Money Pit

The Universal Elixir

Bad Heir Day

Pants on Fire

...And the Switch

Hitting the Trifecta

The Quiet Man

Our Wretched States

Bush's Aggressive Accounting

True Blue Americans

The Great Evasion

Springtime for Hitler

Is the Maestro a Hack?

2-1=4

The Pig in the Python

Prescription for Failure

A Retirement Fable

No Good Deed

2016 and All That

Sins of Commission

Bad Medicine

Fear of All Sums

Victors and Spoils

Things Pull Apart

America the Polarized

The Sons Also Rise

Hey, Lucky Duckies!

The Private Interest

Paying the Price

The Public Interest

The 55-Cent Solution

Money-Grubbing Games

The Long Haul

Exploiting September 11

The One-Eyed Man

An Alternate Reality

The Rove Doctrine

The Reality Thing

The Real Thing

Dead Parrot Society

The Pitt Principle

Victors and Spoils

A Vast Conspiracy?

The Smoke Machine

The Angry People

The Bully's Pulpit

For the People

In Media Res

Digital Robber Barons?

Behind the Great Divide

Channels of Influence

When Markets Go Bad

California Screaming

California Screaming

The Unreal Thing

The Price of Power

The Real Wolf

Turning California On

Enron Goes Overboard

Smoking Fat Boy

In Broad Daylight

Delusions of Power

Smog and Mirrors

The Unrefined Truth

Burn, Baby, Burn

Feeling OPEC's Pain

Ersatz Climate Policy

Two Thousand Acres

Bad Air Days

Bush on Fire

Foreign Disasters

Hong Kong's Hard Lesson

Crying with Argentina

Losing Latin America

The Lost Continent

The Wider View

Global Schmobal

Enemies of the WTO: Bogus Arguments against the World Trade Organization

Saints and Profits

Workers vs. Workers

The Scrooge Syndrome

Heart of Cheapness

America the Scofflaw

White Man's Burden

Economics and Economists

Supply, Demand, and English Food

O Canada: A Neglected Nation Gets Its Nobel

Who Knew? The Swedish Model Is Working

The Two Larrys

Missing James Tobin

One Year Later

War and Terror

George W. Queeg

Red-Blue Terror Alert

Conquest and Neglect

Matters of Emphasis

Paths of Glory

Dereliction of Duty

Denial and Deception

Who's Unpatriotic Now?

Who's Sordid Now?

Weak on Terror

Dollars and Cents

Roads Not Taken

Stating the Obvious

The Trojan Horse

Our So-Called Boom

Red Ink Realities

The Health of Nations

Maestro of Chutzpah

Promises, Promises

The Medicare Muddle

Abuses of Power

Man on Horseback

The China Syndrome

Toward One-Party Rule

Exploiting the Atrocity

Lessons in Civility

Hack the Vote

Democracy at Risk

Get Me Rewrite!

The Real Man

This Isn't America

Index

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